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enPHOTOS: 9th Annual Trans Day of Action in NYChttp://www.glaad.org/blog/photos-9th-annual-trans-day-action-nyc
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-0-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/TDA2.jpg?itok=htjkSo6F" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-5c0b1b1d-a50e-7b42-536c-838ff2fd34fb">GLAAD joined hundreds of friends and allies showing support for the annual <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/today-9th-annual-nyc-trans-day-action-join-march-and-rally">Trans Day of Action</a> last Friday, June 28. The event is organized every year by <a href="http://alp.org/tj">Trans Justice</a>, a subgroup of the <a href="http://www.alp.org">Audre Lorde Project</a>, and was endorsed by GLAAD. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152493830008840.1073741839.186319338839&amp;type=3">See photos from the event.</a><a href="http://alp.org/"> </a></p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://alp.org/join-transjustice-9th-annual-trans-day-action">The 9th Annual Trans Day of Action</a> (TDOA) began with a rally on the Christopher Street Piers in Manhattan, a march in the surrounding streets past Stonewall, and a return to the pier for more speeches and calls to action by organizers of the project and members of the community. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><img class="media-image" height="304" id="2" style="width: 425px; height: 304px;;;" width="425" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/TDA1.jpg?itok=DjiOE_Fr" alt="" /></p>
<p dir="ltr"><img class="media-image" height="383" id="2" style="width: 225px; height: 383px; float: right; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;;;" width="225" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/TDA3.jpg?itok=FY2xUJCw" alt="" />Some of the amazing speakers celebrated the achievements that transgender and gender nonconforming people and their allies have made recently. Others encouraged the audience to mobilize and take a stance against the discrimination that they continue to experience in so many different areas of their lives. Many took the time to mourn and remember loved ones they had recently lost. Marchers chanted pleas to end hatred and discrimination towards trans people and held signs that proclaimed messages such as “Equal Protections for Trans People Now” and “Gender Justice Now.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">"Trans Day of Action brings attention to critical issues affecting trans people, particularly trans people of color," said GLAAD spokesperson Wilson Cruz. "GLAAD is proud to march alongside the Audre Lorde Project and many other organizations calling for an end to violence faced by trans people while celebrating the vibrant trans community."</p>
<p dir="ltr">Events like TDOA are an important way to bring awareness of trans issues to the broader LGBT community and allies. Forty-four years after the initial Stonewall Riots, transgender people still face enormously high rates of violence and discrimination in mutliple areas of life, including housing, employment, education and in intimate relationships. <a href="http://www.avp.org/storage/documents/2012_mr_ncavp_hvreport.pdf">The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP)</a> reported that in 2012 transgender women, people of color and gay men faced the most severe violence. The report found that 53.8% of reported anti-LGBTQ homicide victims were transgender women, and 73.1% of all anti-LGBTQ homocide victims were people of color. In 2012, transgender people were 3.32 times as likely to experience police violence compared to non-transgender people, and were 2.46 times as likely to experience physical violence by police compared to white non-transgender people.</p>
<p dir="ltr">GLAAD was proud to rally and march for trans justice for the Trans Day of Action. Thanks to the Audre Lorde Project for organizing this amazing event and urges media to continue covering transgender issues in a fair and responsible way.<img class="media-image" height="304" id="2" style="width: 425px; height: 304px;;;" width="425" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/TDA4.jpg?itok=P_Tn25u3" alt="" /></p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">July 3, 2013</span></div></div></div>
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Wed, 03 Jul 2013 15:12:20 +0000katybutler66827 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/photos-9th-annual-trans-day-action-nyc#commentsCommunities Rally for 8th Annual Trans Day of Action Marchhttp://www.glaad.org/blog/communities-rally-8th-annual-trans-day-action-march
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img class="media-image" id="2" style="float: right; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/audre-lorde%202.png?itok=2x4O9VvI" alt="" />The eighth annual <a href="http://alp.org/8th-annual-trans-day-action">Trans Day of Action</a> (TDOA), a march and rally, will take place on Friday, June 22 at 3 pm in Washington Square Park in New York.</p>
<p>Organized by the <a href="http://alp.org">Audre Lorde Project</a>, TDOA is an annual day of action in which trans and gender non-confirming (TGNC) people of color and their allies march to “continue fighting for justice, raising [their] voices until [they] are heard, and to build[ing] contingents to march in solidarity together.” GLAAD <a href="http://www.glaad.org/2011/06/28/glaad-staff-celebrate-the-trans-day-of-action-with-the-audre-lorde-project-in-nyc">has been proud to support TDOA</a> and the Audre Lorde Project in previous years, and this Friday we look forward to again marching in unity with the many community supporters.</p>
<p>TDOA is necessary as trans voices far too often are silenced in the media, despite experiencing discrimination at disproportionate rates. According to the<a href="http://www.avp.org/publications.htm"> 2011 National Hate Violence Report</a> and the <a href="http://www.thetaskforce.org/reports_and_research/ntds">Injustice at Every Turn</a> report, hate-violence against trans women of color is at an all-time high as wll as overall discrimination in education, employment and in the penal system.</p>
<p>Just recently, <a href="http://www.glaad.org/supportcece">CeCe McDonald</a>, a victim of transphobic violence, was sentenced to 41 months in a male facility prison after defending herself in a transphobic attack. <em>The New York Times</em> published a sensationalized and insensitive article about the <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/janet-mock-remembers-lorena-escalera-glaadawards">death of Lorena Escelara</a>. And just last week, Lorena’s friend, Carmen Carrera, of <em>Ru Paul’s Drag Race </em>was subjected to<a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-stands-carmen-carrera-demanding-action-tlc-after-anti-transgender-prank-cake-boss"> transphobic jokes on TLC’s <em>Cake Boss</em></a>.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, The Daily Beast brought these issues, illustrative cases, and the media’s general disregard for them to light in a post by Jay Michaelson entitled <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/06/media-ignores-rash-of-assaults-on-transgender-women.html">“Media Ignores Rash of Assaults on Transgender Women”</a>. They reference the plight of <a href="http://www.glaad.org/supportcece">CeCe McDonald</a>, Paige Clay and Brandy Martell.</p>
<p>To help bring even more visibility to these issues, GLAAD has partnered with the CeCe Support Committee, Trans Youth Support Network and Trans People of Color Coalition to ask the media, LGBT community members and allies to continue to bring visibility to the everyday, harsh realities that TGNC people face. CeCe McDonald is only one of the many who have been victimized, but she represents a growing need for us to do more. To find out how you can become more involved, write a letter and Take Action in support of CeCe and other trans persons like herself, please visit <a href="http://www.glaad.org/supportcece">www.glaad.org/supportcece</a> for more information.</p>
<p>On Friday, everyone will come together and march for the entire trans community. TransJustice of the Audre Lorde Project has initiated <a href="http://alp.org/tdoa_pou">Points of Unity</a> for why it is imperative to march for Trans Day of Action. Some include:</p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;"><strong><em>“We demand justice for the many TGNC POC who have been beaten, assaulted, raped, and murdered.</em></strong><em>”</em></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;">“These incidents continue to be silenced or misclassified…The police and the media continue to criminalize us even when we try to defend ourselves. Hate crime laws will not solve the problem but will give increased power to the state to put more people in jail. Instead we call for a unified effort for all of us to look deeper into the root causes of why these incidents happen. In striving for social justice we seek to find ways of holding people accountable and coming to a joint understanding of how we can make our communities safer.”</p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;"><strong><em>“We are in solidarity with all prisoners, especially the many TGNC POC people behind the walls.”</em></strong></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;">“We recognize that TGNC POC people need access to services and facilities that lessen our vulnerability to violence within the present jails and prisons. We call attention to the criminal injustice system that increasingly puts POC, immigrants, people with disabilities, TGNC POC and poor people behind bars - criminalizing our communities and our lives.”</p>
<p>Additional <a href="http://alp.org/tdoa_pou">Points of Unity</a> call for demands for respect, justice and equal access for the trans community.</p>
<p>It is clear that we must continue to fight for fair and accurate inclusion of trans and gender non-conforming people. The media has historically ignored trans identity or just simply marginalized it even further—but, words and images <em>do </em>matter, and this is why the march is so symbolic of a greater need.</p>
<p>Come in solidarity and join the many supporters for Trans Day of Action. Bring your fellow activists, your contingents and demand justice and fair and equitable representation of theTGNC community.</p>
<p>For more information visit: <a href="http://www.glaad.org/events/tdoa2012">www.glaad.org/events/tdoa2012</a></p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">June 20, 2012</span></div></div></div>
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Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:17:25 +0000marcusbrock58290 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/communities-rally-8th-annual-trans-day-action-march#comments